At the same time, it is the only environment today in which to learn and practice Moldable Development.

ndeed, as we can only perceive details related to a software system through tools, it follows that the tools are essential to the act of programming. At the same time, because software is highly contextual, for tools to be effective they also have to be contextual. The above examples are all quite different. In fact, each could be considered as a separate vertical in the software engineering tooling space. Yet, they were all expressed uniformly in the same environment. This shows that these tools are not distinct and that they can be combined and customized arbitrarily. There is just a fluid environment. We do not go to tools. Tools come to us. And we can make them come to us in our terms, in our context. That's the premise of Moldable Development.

run on a wide variety of hardware - desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, watches

At 3 am he realized he needed to change the process scheduler. He read enough code to find the right method, changed it, and continued with his project

when you start with something simple but special purpose, it inevitably accretes features that attempt to increase its generality, as users run into its limitations. But the result of this evolutionary process is usually a complicated mess compared to what could be achieved by designing for generality up-front, in a more holistic way.